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1 Chapter 7: Deadlocks

2 Chapter 7: Deadlocks The Deadlock Problem System Model
Deadlock Characterization Methods for Handling Deadlocks Deadlock Prevention Deadlock Avoidance Deadlock Detection Recovery from Deadlock

3 Chapter Objectives To develop a description of deadlocks, which prevent sets of concurrent processes from completing their tasks To present a number of different methods for preventing or avoiding deadlocks in a computer system

4 The Deadlock Problem P0 P1
A set of blocked processes each holding a resource and waiting to acquire a resource held by another process in the set Example System has 2 disk drives P1 and P2 each holds one disk drive and each needs another one semaphores A and B, initialized to 1 P0 P1 wait (A); wait(B) wait (B); wait(A)

5 Bridge Crossing Example
Traffic only in one direction Each section of a bridge can be viewed as a resource If a deadlock occurs, it can be resolved if one car backs up (preempt resources and rollback) Several cars may have to be backed up if a deadlock occurs Starvation is possible Note – Most OSes do not prevent or deal with deadlocks

6 System Model Resource types R1, R2, . . ., Rm
CPU cycles, memory space, I/O devices Each resource type Ri has Wi instances. Each process utilizes a resource as follows: request use release

7 Deadlock Characterization
Deadlock can arise if four conditions hold simultaneously. Mutual exclusion: only one process at a time can use a resource Hold and wait: a process holding at least one resource is waiting to acquire additional resources held by other processes No preemption: a resource can be released only voluntarily by the process holding it, after that process has completed its task Circular wait: there exists a set {P0, P1, …, Pn} of waiting processes such that P0 is waiting for a resource that is held by P1, P1 is waiting for a resource that is held by P2, …, Pn–1 is waiting for a resource that is held by Pn, and Pn is waiting for a resource that is held by P0.

8 Resource-Allocation Graph
A set of vertices V and a set of edges E. V is partitioned into two types: P = {P1, P2, …, Pn}, the set consisting of all the processes in the system R = {R1, R2, …, Rm}, the set consisting of all resource types in the system request edge – directed edge P1  Rj assignment edge – directed edge Rj  Pi

9 Resource-Allocation Graph (Cont.)
Process Resource Type with 4 instances Pi requests instance of Rj Pi is holding an instance of Rj Pi Rj Pi Rj

10 Example of a Resource Allocation Graph

11 Resource Allocation Graph With A Deadlock

12 Graph With A Cycle But No Deadlock

13 Basic Facts If graph contains no cycles  no deadlock
If graph contains a cycle  if only one instance per resource type, then deadlock if several instances per resource type, possibility of deadlock

14 Methods for Handling Deadlocks
Ensure that the system will never enter a deadlock state Allow the system to enter a deadlock state and then recover Ignore the problem and pretend that deadlocks never occur in the system; used by most operating systems, including UNIX

15 Restrain the ways request can be made
Deadlock Prevention Restrain the ways request can be made Mutual Exclusion – not required for sharable resources; must hold for nonsharable resources Hold and Wait – must guarantee that whenever a process requests a resource, it does not hold any other resources Require process to request and be allocated all its resources before it begins execution, or allow process to request resources only when the process has none Low resource utilization; starvation possible

16 Deadlock Prevention (Cont.)
No Preemption – If a process that is holding some resources requests another resource that cannot be immediately allocated to it, then all resources currently being held are released Preempted resources are added to the list of resources for which the process is waiting Process will be restarted only when it can regain its old resources, as well as the new ones that it is requesting Circular Wait – impose a total ordering of all resource types, and require that each process requests resources in an increasing order of enumeration

17 Deadlock Avoidance Requires that the system has some additional a priori information available Simplest and most useful model requires that each process declares the maximum number of resources of each type that it may need The deadlock-avoidance algorithm dynamically examines the resource-allocation state to ensure that there can never be a circular-wait condition Resource-allocation state is defined by the number of available and allocated resources, and the maximum demands of the processes

18 Safe State When a process requests an available resource, system must decide if immediate allocation leaves the system in a safe state System is in safe state if there exists a sequence <P1, P2, …, Pn> of ALL the processes in the systems such that for each Pi, the resources that Pi can still request can be satisfied by currently available resources + resources held by all the Pj, with j < i

19 Safe State That is: If Pi resource needs are not immediately available, then Pi can wait until all Pj have finished When Pj is finished, Pi can obtain needed resources, execute, return allocated resources, and terminate When Pi terminates, Pi +1 can obtain its needed resources, and so on

20 Basic Facts If a system is in safe state  no deadlocks
If a system is in unsafe state  possibility of deadlock Avoidance  ensure that a system will never enter an unsafe state.

21 Avoidance algorithms Single instance of a resource type
Use a resource-allocation graph Multiple instances of a resource type Use the banker’s algorithm

22 Resource-Allocation Graph Scheme
Claim edge Pi  Rj indicated that process Pi may request resource Rj ; represented by a dashed line Claim edge converts to request edge when a process requests a resource Request edge converted to an assignment edge when the resource is allocated to the process When a resource is released by a process, assignment edge reconverts to a claim edge Resources must be claimed a priori in the system

23 Resource-Allocation Graph
assignment edge request edge Claim edge Pi  Rj Claim edge Pi  Rj

24 Unsafe State In Resource-Allocation Graph

25 Resource-Allocation Graph Algorithm
Suppose that process Pi requests a resource Rj The request can be granted only if converting the request edge to an assignment edge does not result in the formation of a cycle in the resource allocation graph P1  R2 accept P2 R2 reject, otherwise, a cycle is formed

26 Banker’s Algorithm Multiple instances
Each process must a priori claim maximum use When a process requests a resource it may have to wait When a process gets all its resources it must return them in a finite amount of time

27 Data Structures for the Banker’s Algorithm
Let n = number of processes, and m = number of resources types. Available: Vector of length m. If available [j] = k, there are k instances of resource type Rj available Max: n x m matrix. If Max [i,j] = k, then process Pi may request at most k instances of resource type Rj Allocation: n x m matrix. If Allocation[i,j] = k then Pi is currently allocated k instances of Rj Need: n x m matrix. If Need[i,j] = k, then Pi may need k more instances of Rj to complete its task Need [i,j] = Max[i,j] – Allocation [i,j]

28 Safety Algorithm 1. Let Work and Finish be vectors of length m and n, respectively. Initialize: Work = Available Finish [i] = false for i = 0, 1, …, n- 1 2. Find any i such that both: (a) Finish [i] = false (b) Needi  Work If no such i exists, go to step 4 3. Work = Work + Allocationi Finish[i] = true go to step 2 4. If Finish [i] == true for all i, then the system is in a safe state

29 Resource-Request Algorithm for Process Pi
Requesti = request vector for process Pi. If Requesti [j] = k then process Pi wants k instances of resource type Rj 1. If Requesti  Needi go to step 2. Otherwise, raise error condition, since process has exceeded its maximum claim 2. If Requesti  Available, go to step 3. Otherwise Pi must wait, since resources are not available 3. Pretend to allocate requested resources to Pi by modifying the state as follows: Available = Available – Request; Allocationi = Allocationi + Requesti; Needi = Needi – Requesti; If safe  the resources are allocated to Pi If unsafe  Pi must wait, and the old resource-allocation state is restored

30 Example of Banker’s Algorithm
5 processes P0 through P4; 3 resource types: A (10 instances), B (5instances), and C (7 instances) Snapshot at time T0: Allocation Max Available A B C A B C A B C P P P P P

31 Example (Cont.) The content of the matrix Need is defined to be
Max – Allocation Need Available A B C A B C P P P P P The system is in a safe state since the sequence < P1, P3, P4, P2, P0> satisfies safety criteria

32 Example: P1 Request (1,0,2) Check that Request  Available (that is, (1,0,2)  (3,3,2)  true) Allocation Need Available A B C A B C A B C P P P P P Executing safety algorithm shows that sequence < P1, P3, P4, P0, P2> satisfies safety requirement Can request for (3,3,0) by P4 be granted? Can request for (0,2,0) by P0 be granted?

33 Deadlock Detection Allow system to enter deadlock state
Detection algorithm Recovery scheme

34 Single Instance of Each Resource Type
Maintain wait-for graph Nodes are processes Pi  Pj if Pi is waiting for Pj Periodically invoke an algorithm that searches for a cycle in the graph. If there is a cycle, there exists a deadlock An algorithm to detect a cycle in a graph requires an order of n2 operations, where n is the number of vertices in the graph

35 Resource-Allocation Graph and Wait-for Graph
Corresponding wait-for graph

36 Several Instances of a Resource Type
Available: A vector of length m indicates the number of available resources of each type. Allocation: An n x m matrix defines the number of resources of each type currently allocated to each process. Request: An n x m matrix indicates the current request of each process. If Request [i, j] = k, then process Pi is requesting k more instances of resource type Rj.

37 Detection Algorithm 1. Let Work and Finish be vectors of length m and n, respectively Initialize: (a) Work = Available (b) For i = 1,2, …, n, if Allocationi  0, then Finish[i] = false; otherwise, Finish[i] = true 2. Find an index i such that both: (a) Finish[i] == false (b) Requesti  Work If no such i exists, go to step 4

38 Detection Algorithm (Cont.)
3. Work = Work + Allocationi Finish[i] = true go to step 2 4. If Finish[i] == false, for some i, 1  i  n, then the system is in deadlock state. Moreover, if Finish[i] == false, then Pi is deadlocked Algorithm requires an order of O(m x n2) operations to detect whether the system is in deadlocked state

39 Example of Detection Algorithm
Five processes P0 through P4; three resource types A (7 instances), B (2 instances), and C (6 instances) Snapshot at time T0: Allocation Request Available A B C A B C A B C P P P P P Sequence <P0, P2, P3, P1, P4> will result in Finish[i] = true for all i

40 Example (Cont.) P2 requests an additional instance of type C
A B C P P P P P State of system? Can reclaim resources held by process P0, but insufficient resources to fulfill other processes’ requests Deadlock exists, consisting of processes P1, P2, P3, and P4

41 Detection-Algorithm Usage
When, and how often, to invoke depends on: How often a deadlock is likely to occur? How many processes will need to be rolled back? one for each disjoint cycle If detection algorithm is invoked arbitrarily, there may be many cycles in the resource graph and so we would not be able to tell which of the many deadlocked processes “caused” the deadlock

42 Recovery from Deadlock: Process Termination
Abort all deadlocked processes Abort one process at a time until the deadlock cycle is eliminated In which order should we choose to abort? Priority of the process How long process has computed, and how much longer to complete Resources the process has used Resources process needs to complete How many processes will need to be terminated Is process interactive or batch?

43 Recovery from Deadlock: Resource Preemption
Selecting a victim – minimize cost Rollback return to some safe state, restart process for that state Starvation same process may always be picked as victim, include number of rollbacks in cost factor

44 End of Chapter 7


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